MUMBAI, Feb. 15 -- The Ajit Pawar-led Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) surprised everyone in the political circles by nominating senior leader Praful Patel for the upcoming Rajya Sabha (RS) elections, slated on February 27. He has been nominated despite being a sitting RS member, who has four years left in his term. Patel will now resign from his current RS seat and file nomination for the ongoing polls for the Upper House....